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'Nobody's ever seen anything like this': how coronavirus turned the US election upside down
(Guardian UK) Mar-a-Lago was the place to see and be seen for guests who paid thousands of dollars for the privilege on New Years Eve. Diamonds and furs abounded on the red carpet. When Donald Trump arrived at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in high spirits and a tuxedo, he declared: Were going to have a great year, I predict.
But earlier that day, a Chinese government website had identified a pneumonia of unknown cause in the area surrounding a seafood market in Wuhan. When midnight struck and 2020 dawned, no one could have guessed how this microscopic pathogen would turn the world upside down, infecting 15 million people, killing 625,000, crippling economies and wiping out landmark events such as the Olympic Games.
America is no exception. The coronavirus pandemic has upended the presidential election, which, on Sunday, will be just one hundred days away. It has changed the issues, the way the fight is fought and quite possibly the outcome. The nations biggest economic crisis for 75 years, and worst public health crisis for a century, is an asteroid strike that has rewritten the rules of politics and left historians grasping for election year comparisons.
There is probably nothing the same as coronavirus, said Thomas Schwartz, a history professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Obviously, you have issues that stir the public up: 1968 would have been Vietnam and the disturbances that had taken place in the cities. But nothing quite as universal and affecting such a wide band of Americans as the coronavirus. That is really new. .......(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/coronavirus-trump-white-house-election-2020
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'Nobody's ever seen anything like this': how coronavirus turned the US election upside down (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2020
OP
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)1. trump was headed for defeat as soon as Biden announced this run, COVID will
amplify the level of defeat of trump as well as GOP all across the US as their combined leadership has cost american lives and place 100's of thousands more at risk with lifetime ailments. Throw in forcing kids back to school with little or no money made available, even some hardcore republicans will stand in line to vote trump out
Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)2. +1000